Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

adriangr The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a vintage 1970's thriller about a family curse, in which there are 7 murders every 100 years, committed by one of two sisters, who picks off 6 victims and the eventually kills the other sister. Which is a bit of a convoluted legend. But anyway, Barbara Bouchet plays Kitty, the leading lady in peril, who feels that her missing and deranged sister is replaying out the legend and killing multiple people, so she soon fears that she will become the 7th victim.The whole movie is a bit of a jumble of plot and events, as people close to or somehow linked to Kitty start to die horribly. The movie does look good, thanks to the lovely actresses who appear in it, and there are some great shots of the "Red Queen" killer (in a long red cape, black hair and white face) dashing about the place. There's also a fairly spectacular castle setting with suitable creepy rooms and dungeons. The explanation is almost impossible to piece together, but at least it's something you couldn't really figure out!The prologue is also important as it shows how Kitty (as a child) first learned about the legend, and we get to hear the improbable story, as well as see a ridiculously gory painting which the family have deemed suitable to be hung in full view on a wall! Sadly, what doesn't work is the English dub, which is dreadful and it especially hampers this prologue, because the only thing worse than bad dubbing is bad dubbing of children, and here it's excruciating. There is a fair bit of gore, but the blood looks like tomato soup and there are no really good effects to be seen. However it's all energetic and well paced, and there is a lot of topless female nudity to keep the male audience members entertained. Worth a look.

Leofwine_draca This obscure giallo flick from director Emilio Miraglia is a typically muddled entry for the genre, and certainly one that's not to be recommended to those who don't even know what a giallo is! For those familiar with these types of films, THE LADY IN RED KILLS SEVEN TIMES is even more incomprehensible than most movies, as a mysterious killer named Evelyn slaughters her way through much of the cast – and, get this, she's dead! I first got this confused with the director's other giallo, THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE, the title of which perfectly describes the events in this movie, but rest assured they are two separate films. The plot of this one is quite slow-paced, with lots of padding in the form of '70s Italian cheese which some will love, and others (like me, I'm afraid) will hate. The ending makes an effort to explain things with one of those big twists, but I was still scratching my head come the closing credits! Now on to the good stuff…this film's cast is better than usual, with a bunch of actors who actually do what they get paid to do – act! Barbara Bouchet is lovely as the put-upon heroine, especially in the climatic sequences in which she's trapped in a dungeon rapidly filling with water (and rats) – okay, so this finale belongs more in a '30s American serial than a '70s Italian giallo, but at least it offers excitement and acts as a wake-up call to audience members who may have fallen asleep through the slow first hour. Other good actors include the moustachioed cop who sweats his way through the police procedurals and the other pretty female victims who inevitably find themselves on the receiving end of a sharp knife! One to look out for is Sybil Danning, who is very young here but not at all shy! She and all the other female cast members routinely shed their clothing in a bid to retain the male viewer's interest.Sometimes the best thing about the giallo films are their inventive death sequences, with Dario Argento the acknowledged master of the genre in this respect. Sadly, the murders in this film, although bloody, are completely unconvincing, with the actors shuffling around in the gloom with dubbed screaming over the top. The film's best death comes when a blackmailer is dragged along by a car (shoulda taken your coat off, dude!), a totally hilarious moment. Watch out for the shifty guy with the moustache (no, not the cop, the other one) – it turns out he's crippled right at the end of the film, although no mention or sign has been made of this previously, and he apparently dies by falling into a stream of water; I can't explain it, maybe you'll do better.All that said and done, THE LADY IN RED KILLS SEVEN TIMES isn't much cop; it remains routine and quite mundane throughout, with only the cast's best efforts to keep it afloat. There are many better giallo movies out there, so this one is only for the die-hard and dedicated fan.

Red-Barracuda This was the second giallo Emilio Miraglia directed after the previous year's The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave. In fact it was the last movie he ever directed. On the evidence of this film that is a criminal waste because The Red Queen Kills 7 Times really is a terrific giallo. Like its predecessor, this one mixes the giallo format with neo-Gothic elements; in this case an old castle replete with a crypt populated with rats and bats, as well as a legend about an evil supernatural killer. This Gothic material is combined with a super-chic contemporary setting, where we have a fashion house populated with a selection of gorgeous girls. This set-up gives the movie a slightly different angle to most others in the genre and Miraglia makes full use of both the Gothic and the giallo conventions.The plot is as complex as you should expect from these flicks. It is basically about two sisters who grow up in a castle. An old painting shows two other warring sisters, the evil one being the dark haired Red Queen -a girl who returns from the dead every hundred years on murderous rampages. Of course the little girls grow up and the Red Queen mysteriously appears and starts a series of killings.It has to be said that this film has a truly awesome killer. The Red Queen has to be one of the greatest cinematic serial killers ever conceived. This sexy black haired woman in flowing red gown and scary voice is a very inspired creation indeed. She commits a series of murders of course. They aren't the most graphic of killings but they are very varied. Most original being death by fence pole, while the scene where someone is dragged through the streets by car was repeated several years later in Dario Argento's Deep Red. Aside from this, the cinematography is as lovely as you may expect from a film like this, with great widescreen compositions that make full use of both the Gothic locations as well as the modern interiors. And last but certainly not least there is an assortment of gorgeous Euro actresses to savour. Barbara Bouchet leads the picture and, as always, is phenomenal; sexy and sympathetic, she truly was one of the very best actresses working in Italy in the 70's. Also of particular note is Sybil Danning as a bad girl femme fatale.For Euro cult viewers you just cannot go wrong here. It's definitely a very memorable entry in the giallo sub-genre.

BA_Harrison As children, sisters Evelyn and Kitty Wildenbrück are told a chilling family legend by their grandfather: every hundred years, The Red Queen, a Wildenbrück woman who has been murdered by her sister, will return from the dead to claim seven victims.Fourteen years later, after her grandfather dies, Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) begins to wonder if there was some truth in the old man's crazy tale: people in her acquaintance have started to be murdered, and witnesses claim that the killer not only wears red, but also looks a lot like her sister Evelyn—whose corpse lies hidden deep under the Wildenbrück castle, having been accidentally killed by Kitty during an argument!!!A 70s giallo from director Emilio Miraglia, The Red Queen Kills 7 Times not only has one hell of a crazy story (a prerequisite of the genre), but also packs in plenty of female nudity and the occasional bit of bloodletting. However, despite being an admirer of the genre (and a big fan of gratuitous T&A and gore), I wasn't overly impressed by this effort, finding the plot too convoluted to follow at times (even for a giallo), the killer too easy to identify, and the ending rather rushed.On the positive side, Bouchet is gorgeous (as are her co-stars Pia Giancaro and Sybil Danning), the deaths are frequent (with the highlight being a juicy impalement on a fence), the score is great, the cinematography lovely, and, for sleaze fans, there is even a drug-dealing rapist to bring down the tone of the film a couple of notches.I give The Red Queen Kills 7 Times a rating of 6 out of 10, although it very nearly got a 7, for featuring cinema's largest pair of pentagonal glasses (as sported by Ms. Giancaro), and a cop who looks like Borat.